ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Virtual Conference*
March 08–11 (Main Conference)
Workshops to precede and to follow
Important Dates
FULL PAPERS
October 5, 2020 (23:59 AOE): Submission Deadline
November 20, 2020: Review Notification, Rebuttal Period Begins
November 24, 2020: Rebuttal Period Ends
December 07, 2020: Decision Notification
January 05, 2021: Camera-ready Deadline
Author instructions: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/full-papers/
Guides to Submission Types: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/guides-to-submission-types/
WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
October 5, 2020 (23:59 AoE): Submission Deadline
January 12, 2021: Camera-ready Deadline
Author instructions: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/workshops-and-tutorials/
PIONEERS
November 15, 2020: Submission Deadline
December 20, 2020: Notification of Acceptance
Early January, 2021: Camera-ready Deadline
Early March, 2021: HRI Pioneers Workshop
Author instructions: http://www.hripioneers.info/
ALT.HRI
November 30, 2020: Submission Deadline
January 7, 2021: Notification of Acceptance
January 12, 2021: Final Submission
Author instructions: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/alt-hri/
STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
December 10, 2020 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth): Submission Deadline
January 08, 2021: Acceptance Notification
January 18, 2021: Camera-ready Deadline
Participant instructions: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/student-design-competition/
LATE BREAKING REPORTS, VIDEOS, and DEMOS
December 14, 2020 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth): Submission Deadline
January 08, 2021: Notification of acceptance
January 18, 2021: Final camera-ready deadline
LBR Author instructions: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/late-breaking-reports/
Videos & Demo Instructions: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2021/videos/
About
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
HRI 2021 is the 16th annual conference for basic and applied human-robot interaction research. Researchers from across the world present their best work to HRI to exchange ideas about the theory, technology, data, and science furthering the state-of-the-art in human-robot interaction.
Each year, the HRI Conference highlights a particular area through a theme. The theme of HRI 2021 is “Bolder Human-Robot Interaction.”
The HRI conference is a highly selective annual international conference that aims to showcase the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in human-robot interaction with roots in and broad participation from communities that include but are not limited to robotics, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, human factors, design, and social and behavioral sciences.
CHANGES DUE TO COVID-19
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the conference is currently planned to be fully virtual.
We also acknowledge that many authors are concerned with how the pandemic has affected the feasibility of conducting in-person user studies. We want to stress that user studies are not the only possible means of assessing a research contribution. We encourage authors to consider the many other ways that contributions can be validated, and we will stress in the reviewing guidelines that, for many of the submitted works, user studies might not necessarily be the most appropriate, nor an indispensable method to demonstrate validity or provide valuable insights to the research community.